Each time we are enchanted by the silence, and when we stopped for a minute, we couldn’t hear a thing.
And the views along the way, the grandness of the mountain area makes us humble every time again. We always wonder how the wild animals can survive in these harsh circumstances.
The Queyras often “suffers” from what they call “le retour d’est” or “the return from the east”, a condition in which clouds get stuck in the valley of the Queyras, and bring extremely heavy snowfall, up to 2,5 meters overnight.
The advantage for tourists is that once the area is accessible again, the scenery is too beautiful.
We were lucky, the “retour d’est” happened a few days before our last snowshoe hike.